One advantage that Blondie has the second time around is fans in high places. Stein asks my age. When I answer, he notes, "There are a lot of people that age who are in the industry and the media now who were all our fans. And the first time around, there wasn't anything like that. You were still victims of that old-school mentality -- all the fuckin' guys with the cigars. There are a lot of people who want to have integrity now, they want to be honest. We certainly didn't get that the first time around.